3/ A lawyer from Trump's transition team accused Robert Mueller of unlawfully obtaining the emails.

4/ Trump said he is not considering firing Robert Mueller.

5/ Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are trying to wrap up their Russia probe by the end of the year.

6/ Trump has been telling people close to him that he expects Robert Mueller to clear him soon.

7/ Trump unveiled his "America First" foreign policy.

8/ The Trump administration ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop using "diversity," "fetus," "transgender," "vulnerable," "entitlement," "science-based," and "evidence-based" in their 2018 budget documents.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump challenged Jeff Sessions to investigate the Obama administration for not doing enough to stop Russian interference in the 2016 election. 2/ Jared Kushner is pushing back against attempts to revoke his access to highly classified information. 3/ Mueller ...…

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Robert Mueller charged an attorney with making a false statement to federal authorities. 2/ Trump endorsed Mitt Romney's run for a U.S. Senate seat in Utah. 3/ The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to California's 10-day waiting period for firearms purch ...…

Monday, February 19, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ March For Our Lives: Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are calling for a March 24 march on Washington. 2/ Former Trump aide Rick Gates will plead guilty to fraud-related charges and has agreed to testify against Paul Manafort. 3/ Several conser ...…

Friday, February 16, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Robert Mueller's federal grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals. 2/ Rick Gates is close to a plea deal with Robert Mueller. 3/ The FCC is investigating whether its chairman "improperly coordinated with Sinclair" on rule changes that benefited the broadcaster. ...…

Thursday, February 15, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump, in a tweet, suggested that students and neighbors should have reported the Florida shooter to authorities. 2/ A student who witnessed the shooting called out lawmakers on TV, looking directly into the camera and saying: "We're children. You guys are th ...…

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump's lawyer paid Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket in order to buy the porn star's silence about Trump's alleged affair with her. 2/ Trump doesn't believe Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. 3/ The House Oversight Committee is in ...…

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ U.S. intelligence agencies expect Russia to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections through hacking and social media manipulation. 2/ FBI Director Christopher Wray contradicted the White House's timeline for Rob Porter. 3/ Rob Porter was up for a promotion despit ...…

Monday, February 12, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Rachel Brand quit the Justice Department in part over fears that she'd have to take over the Russia investigation if Trump fired Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. 2/ The White House proposed a $4.4 trillion federal budget that would add $7 trillion to the ...…

Friday, February 9, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ The Justice Department's No. 3 official resigned. 2/ Top White House officials knew about the allegations of Rob Porter's verbal and physical abuse for months. 3/ Trump is frustrated with Hope Hicks' role in the Porter scandal and is placing much of the blame on ...…

Thursday, February 8, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Russian hackers penetrated voter registration rolls in several U.S. states before the 2016 presidential election. 2/ The Trump administration may target immigrants who use certain taxpayer-funded benefits to make it harder for them to gain permanent residency. ...…

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Senate leaders struck a budget deal to increase defense and domestic spending by about $315 billion over two years. 2/ Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, said she cannot agree to any budget deal without a vote on an immigration bill to protect Dreamers. 3/ A White Hous ...…

Tuesday, February 6, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump's lawyers want him to refuse an interview with Robert Mueller, because they're concerned that he could be charged with lying to investigators. 2/ Steve Bannon will not testify before the House Intelligence Committee today, thus risking being held in conte ...…

Monday, February 5, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump accused Democrats of being un-American and treasonous because they didn't clap for him during his State of the Union address. 2/ The Dow had its worst single-day decline ever. 3/ Senators John McCain and Christopher Coons will introduce a bipartisan immigr ...…

Friday, February 2, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump approved the release of the Nunes memo after first attacking both the FBI and the Justice Department in an early-morning tweet. TL;DR: THE MEMO. The memo didn't provide the evidence to support the claim that the FBI abused its surveillance power under the ...…

Thursday, February 1, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Hope Hicks allegedly told Trump that the emails involving Trump Jr. and the Trump Tower meeting "will never get out" because only a few people have access to them. 2/ Adam Schiff accused Devin Nunes of giving Trump a "secretly altered" version of The Memo™ whi ...…

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ The FBI said in a statement that it has "grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy." 2/ Trump promised "100 percent" to release The Memo™. 3/ Trump asked Rod Rosenstein is he was "on my team." 4/ The FBI age ...…

Monday, January 29, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ The FBI is investigating a second Trump-Russia dossier. 2/ Paul Ryan called for a "cleanse" of the FBI. 3/ Mitch McConnell sees no need to protect Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. 4/ Trump is considering having Jeff Sessions prosecute Robert Mueller. 5/ Se ...…

Monday, January 29, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Republicans won't advance bills to protect Robert Mueller. 2/ FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is "stepping aside." 3/ Lawmakers in both parties are calling on Trump to drop his demands to slash legal immigration. 4/ Trump joined Republicans and called for the ...…

Friday, January 26, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller in June, but backed down after Don McGahn threatened to quit if Trump went through with it. 2/ Trump and his allies have repeatedly denied that Trump ever considered firing Mueller. 3/ Mueller's investigation is moving much fas ...…

Thursday, January 25, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump proposed immigration legislation that could provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million DREAMers in exchange for a $25 billion "trust fund" to build a border wall. 2/ Ty Cobb walked back Trump's statement that he was "looking forward" to s ...…

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump said he was "looking forward" to speaking with Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors under oath. 2/ Michael Flynn didn't tell the White House about his 2017 interview with the FBI. 3/ Robert Mueller's team has interviewed Director of National Intelligenc ...…

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Jeff Sessions was questioned by Robert Mueller's team last week. 2/ Mueller's team interviewed Comey last year. 3/ The head of the FBI threatened to resign after Jeff Sessions pressured him to fire Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. 4/ Chuck Schumer retracted his o ...…

Monday, January 22, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to approve a short-term spending bill to fund the government through February 8th. 2/ The deal to end the government shutdown included $31 billion in tax cuts. 3/ Paul Ryan received $500,000 in campaign contributions from ...…

Friday, January 19, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ The Senate is heading toward a showdown vote on spending legislation to keep the government open past midnight. 2/ Trump invited Chuck Schumer to the White House to discuss a deal. 3/ Trump canceled his trip to Mar-a-Lago in hopes that lawmakers will avoid a shu ...…

Thursday, January 18, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free. 1/ Trump will back short-term funding legislation after causing confusion on Twitter. 2/ In the event of a shutdown, Mitch McConnell plans to keep the Senate in session and stage a series of votes. 3/ Trump contradicted John Kelly's statements about the proposed ...…

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump accused Russia of helping North Korea evade sanctions. 2/ The Pentagon wants to allow nuclear retaliation in response to cyberattacks against the United States. 3/ Steve Bannon cited executive privilege and refused to answer questions from the House Inte ...…

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Steve Bannon was subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand jury as part of Mueller's Russia probe. 2/ Bannon met with the House Intelligence Committee this morning behind closed-doors. 3/ The government could shutdown if lawmakers can't agree on a spending bill ...…

Thursday, January 11, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ The Trump administration will let states require people to work for Medicaid. 2/ The House reauthorized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. 3/ Trump sent a series of confusing tweets about his position on the bill after a Fox News analyst appealed direct ...…

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's attempt to end DACA. 2/ Trump declined to commit to an interview with Robert Mueller when asked at a news conference today. 3/ Trump's personal attorney filed lawsuits against Fusion GPS and Buzzfeed over the ...…

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump's secretaries of state and defense are trying to convince him not to conduct a "bloody nose" attack against North Korea. 2/ Dianne Feinstein released the full transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. 3 ...…

Monday, January 8, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump's legal team anticipates that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will ask to interview Trump as part of the Russia probe. 2/ Trump requires more "executive time" to watch TV, make phone calls, and tweet than he did in the early days of his presidency. 3/ Jake Ta ...…

Friday, January 5, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump ordered the White House's top lawyer to stop Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from the Russia investigation. 2/ Paul Ryan supported House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes' threat to hold officials at Justice and the FBI in contempt of Congress. ...…

Thursday, January 4, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Steve Bannon received a cease and desist letter from Trump's lawyer accusing him of breaching his confidentiality agreement by making "disparaging" and "outright defamatory statements" about Trump and his family. 2/ Trump's lawyer also demanded that Michael Wolf ...…

Wednesday, January 3, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Steve Bannon called the Trump Tower meeting with Russians "treasonous," "unpatriotic," and "bad shit." 2/ Trump responds: "Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind." 3/ Paul Manafort ...…

Tuesday, January 2, 2018 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ A drunk George Papadopoulos bragged about the political dirt Russia had on Hillary Clinton to Australia's top diplomat. 2/ Trump suggested that former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin should face jail time. 3/ Orrin Hatch will retire at the end of the year. 4/ 20 ...…

Friday, December 29, 2017 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/1/ Trump: the Russia investigation makes the US "look very bad" and that it "puts the country in a very bad position." 2/ Russia said the worsening relationship with the US is a major disappointment. 3/ Trump tweets that the US could use some "good old Global War ...…

Thursday, December 28, 2017 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Robert Mueller is investigating whether the Trump campaign and the RNC coordinated their voter outreach using Russian-acquired information. 2/ A jailed Russian said he can prove he hacked the Democratic National Committee computers on behalf of Russian intelli ...…

Thursday, December 21, 2017 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free *WTF Lite: **I'm publishing on a shortened end-of-year schedule this week. WTF Just Happened Today will be updated once-a-day Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. I'll be back in the new year on January 2.* 1/ Trump claimed the "tainted" FBI is using the "bog ...…

Friday, December 22, 2017 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free WTF Just Happened Today will be back on Tuesday, December 26th. Until then, join me in the community forum to share and discuss what the fuck is going on. ✌️ 1/ The House Intelligence Committee asked Steve Bannon and Corey Lewandowski to testify. 2/ Trump signed th ...…

Thursday, December 21, 2017 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Nearly 2 million children will lose health coverage if Congress doesn't fund the Children's Health Insurance Program by Friday. 2/ Current government funding expires at the end of the day Friday. 3/ Two measures intended to stabilize the Affordable Care Act ma ...…

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ The House passed the $1.5 trillion GOP tax bill. 2/ The GOP bill would lower taxes for 95% of Americans in 2018, but within a decade 53% of Americans will pay more in taxes under the plan. 3/ Trump's new campaign slogan is "How's your 401(k) doing?" 4/ Trump co ...…

Monday, December 18, 2017 1/ The FBI warned Trump in 2016 that Russia would try to infiltrate his campaign. 2/ Robert Mueller obtained "many tens of thousands" of Trump transition emails. 3/ A lawyer from Trump's transition team accused Robert Mueller of unlawfully obtaining the emails. 4/ Trump said he is not considering firing Robert Mueller. ...…

Thursday, December 14, 2017 *SUBSCRIBE: **Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free.* 1/ The FCC voted to repeal net neutrality. In a letter to FCC chairman Ajit Pai, 18 attorneys general asked the commission to delay the net neutrality vote. The New York attorney general said the net neutrality public comment process was corrupted by more th ...…

1/ Democrat Doug Jones beat Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama U.S. Senate race. 2/ Roy Moore won't concede the race, saying he will "wait on God and let this process play out." 3/ Trump tweets: "I was right" that Roy Moore would "not be able to win" in Alabama because "the deck was stacked against him!" 4/ Senate Democrats called on Republica ...…

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1/ Alabama voters head to the polls today. 2/ Roy Moore's wife argued that her husband is not a bigot because "one of our attorneys is a Jew." 3/ The Alabama Supreme Court blocked a circuit judge's order to preserve voting records from today's special election. 4/ 56 female Democratic lawmakers asked the House Oversig ...…